Jane Greengoldhttp://www.janegreengold.com
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 22:14:49 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2Lost and Foundhttp://www.janegreengold.com/projects/public-art/lost-and-found/
http://www.janegreengold.com/projects/public-art/lost-and-found/#commentsSun, 24 Mar 2013 21:51:25 +0000adminhttp://www.janegreengold.com/?p=549Continue reading →]]>When I started working on a piece for the Centennial of Grand Central Terminal, I walked around the Terminal for days, looking for inspiration. I was lucky to meet a conductor, Joe Wenham, willing to chat. He told me his father, grandmother, and great-grandfather had all been conductors, starting before 1913. I said his family itself could illustrate the history of the Terminal and he told me that his great-grandfather had begun a family tradition of retrieving items he had brought to the Lost and Found and that had not been reclaimed, even buying items valuable enough to be sold. He began on a whim, but then decided to create a personal museum of memories of his passengers. The family has kept this up for 100 years.

They did not usually keep the kinds of objects most often lost — umbrellas, gloves, hats, glasses – but kept things that happened to strike their fancy. Neither Joe nor his father has been as enthusiastic about collecting as the first two generations, but they didn’t stop.
So instead of creating a work for the Centennial, I persuaded Joe to share some of the family collection, and together we chose the objects presented here.

]]>http://www.janegreengold.com/projects/public-art/lost-and-found/feed/0Tionic Texthttp://www.janegreengold.com/projects/studio-work/tionic-text/
http://www.janegreengold.com/projects/studio-work/tionic-text/#commentsTue, 23 Oct 2012 00:39:10 +0000adminhttp://www.janegreengold.com/?p=509http://www.janegreengold.com/projects/studio-work/tionic-text/feed/0Halloween Impalements: The Toll of Timehttp://www.janegreengold.com/projects/public-art/impalements/
http://www.janegreengold.com/projects/public-art/impalements/#commentsSun, 21 Oct 2012 04:02:12 +0000adminhttp://www.janegreengold.com/wp/?p=165Continue reading →]]>Inspired by the spikes on the long iron fence on the corner of Kane and Strong in Cobble Hill, I began, in 1998, to impale pumpkins on Halloween. For years, with the help of friends and family, I impaled 80 to 100 pumpkins on these spikes. Every pumpkin was unique. The impaled pumpkins were left to age as nature commanded, into gnarly remnants of themselves.

Starting in 2012, I invited neighbors and all pumpkin artists to contribute pumpkins to the fence. In 2013, contributors added 62 to our 104 for a total of 166 pumpkins, and more than 1500 trick-or-treaters and their families stopped by.

]]>http://www.janegreengold.com/projects/public-art/impalements/feed/0Spread the Wealthhttp://www.janegreengold.com/projects/public-art/spread-the-wealth/
http://www.janegreengold.com/projects/public-art/spread-the-wealth/#commentsTue, 01 May 2012 23:42:12 +0000adminhttp://www.janegreengold.com/?p=496Continue reading →]]>A project for May Day 2012, distributing cards and posters to spread the message I believe is central to the goals of Mayday and should be the goal for everyday: Spread the Wealth and Share the Power.

Like “Greenfields,” this work invites participation by viewers. Each panel can be hung vertically or horizontally, in any order, and every square can be placed in any position on any panel, in any orientation.

These paintings, on rolling pins and cardboard toilet paper cores, allow the viewer to roll her own image. Each roll can be set at a different place in the support, and can be rolled to any point on its surface, created an almost endless series of variations.